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every once in a while in my life I encounter a computer or Electronics

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issue that's completely inexplicable for example in the early 2000s I had a

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machine that for some reason didn't

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require the Warcraft 3 disc to be loaded in the optical drive I wasn't using an

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OCD crack and the issue I'm not going to

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call it a problem because it was very convenient the issue persisted over

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multiple reformats and reinstallations of the game only to go away when I

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upgraded the computer computer but the point of this video is not for me to

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tell old stories from a million years ago because I'm old the point of this

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video is that thanks to the power of video recording and the internet I can

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now share with you these experiences

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welcome to episode one of what we're calling haunted Hardware

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video description so you're sitting there at home thinking lus there's

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nothing haunted about running doom on a computer it's supposed to work that way

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the game is scary we not scary whatever the case may be no no the haunted thing

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about what you're looking at right now is this fraps counter up here in the top

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left corner that's not supposed to be there now if I was running an open GL

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mode that would be fine but look at this

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settings Advanced

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Vulcan for contrast this is how it is

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supposed to work this is my normal desktop test bench with a GTX 1080 we go

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into settings Advanced openg 4.5 boom

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FPS counters working now if we switch to Vulcan Doom will

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restart and we'll fast forward through this if it drags out for too long for

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you guys and my camera person will hold kind of still but really you can already

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see okay we are switched over to Vulcan my FPS counter is gone fraps is still

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very much loaded in the system tray it just doesn't work that way fraps isn't

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designed to work with either of the new lower level apis that is Vulcan or

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directx12 that what you just saw there is the

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normal expected Behavior so it's at this stage in any troubleshooting process

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that the good old sanity check comes in so you go into your settings you go this

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is a really cool feature of Doom it's like it's almost like it's made by

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people who care you go show performance metrics and you go okay is it actually

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running

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Vulcan yes it would appear so okay but if we were running in

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borderless Window mode it is possible

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that fraps could overlay itself in some

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way so what we need to do is go into the

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console and this is another great thing that Doom has and good games should all

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have and we can have a look at what commands we have and we go okay vid

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restart okay you saw that black flash no

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the game is running 1920 x 1080 full screen so the next logical step let's

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check our software revisions maybe NVIDIA has a driver or Doom released an

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update or uh the fraps has a new version

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something of which enables this functionality so NVIDIA driver 21213

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7270 got it Doom build 127 2992 and

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fraps is version 3.5.9 let's go double check all that

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stuff over on the desktop here we've got that same driver revision it's great

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even though we're running a different graphics card they're the same architecture running the same

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driver Doom is running that exact same build which makes sense because I've

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always got auto update enabled in Steam and finally fraps is running that same

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3.5.9 in fact here's a fun fact I didn't realize this until I was working on this

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video fraps hasn't even been updated since 26th of February 2013 so for them

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to have introduced a patch that enables this functionality seems very very

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unlikely considering the last patch fixed AO desktop and directex 10 games

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so then it's at this point that we start getting into the troubleshooting steps

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that take a little bit longer we're going to do a full reinstall of our

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driver as well as Doom downloading a

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completely fresh copy of the game off of steam just in case there is some weird

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corruption that's not allowing it to properly launch in Vulcan mode for

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example to get rid of our videoar driver we're going to be using ddu I'm not

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going to go through all the steps in you know Exquisite detail but basically you

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reboot in safe mood you run ddu you download a fresh copy of the drivers off

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NVIDIA and install that and try

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again and we're back in game now with

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fresh drivers fresh copy of the game and

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exactly the same behavior we saw last

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time so at this point it's time to take

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it to the next level we are going to do a fresh format of this PC we're going to

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go back to bone stock then we're going to update the

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drivers then we're going to install the game and see if it persists now I

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suspect it's running in open GL mode out

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of the box it's not something you can configure

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when you launch the game for Doom so everything here looks hunky dory totally

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normal open GL 4.5 we have

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CS okay

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Advanced Vulcan

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yes 1100 frames per

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second haunted right

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haunted haunted computer ven

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1.0.13 frame rate counter

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working even though it shouldn't and the game is loading now I

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did observe that openg Vulcan regardless

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of what API it was running performance did look a little bit low there so I'm

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going to remove another variable I'm going to disable the onboard Graphics

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here disabling this will cause it to stop functioning you think that's good I

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would sure hope so and what I'm going to do now is to determine once and for all

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whether we have magic fraps or broken

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game I am actually going to do our

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Benchmark run with each different

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readout here and see if they perform

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differently okay so settings we're going

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to Triple confirm them blah blah blah blah blah full

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screen blah blah BL blah Advanced Vulcan

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definitely everything is wow wow

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Windows okay I'm not going to run the whole Benchmark because quite frankly

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the difference between Vulcan and openg GL at this resolution on this Hardware

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should be pretty much immediately noticeable so we're getting about 70

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frames per second talking to this guy

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respectfully um so that's fine let's go

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ahead settings advanced open

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G

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restart okay here we

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go no way okay hold on just a second

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here what the sh just happened okay so at this point

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in the video I was kind of expecting the conclusion to be haha it's just running

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open GL because the game isn't launching in Vulcan

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mode but what we appear to have gotten

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instead and I don't have another 1060

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equipped laptop to compare against unfortunately but we what we what we

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appear to have gotten instead is magical fraps running on a

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magical machine magically working on Vulcan even though there is absolutely

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no way and I'm sure the fraps developers would be happy to call me up and tell me this personally there's absolutely no

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way that this is working so this is the kind of that I go through all I wanted

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all I wanted was a performance

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comparison between this laptop and this

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laptop for my review of this

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laptop this is what I'm dealing with so

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if you were wondering when you saw the review of this laptop which will perhaps

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come out before this video why there was no Vulcan Doom testing now you know I

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don't know blaming this laptop in fact I probably won't even mention it because

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it's probably not this laptop's fault because I've seen this kind of

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before I'm just happy that for once I got to share the experience with you

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